OSIRIS REx: Ready for a Voyage to Bennu

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OSIRIS-REx will launch toward Near Earth Asteroid Bennu soon. In an early celebration of Asteroid Day, mission leader Dante Lauretta tells us how learning about asteroids may teach us about our own origins, and help us avoid a cataclysmic impact. Emily Lakdawalla has prepared a minute-by-minute timeline for the high anxiety July 4th arrival of Juno at Jupiter. Bruce Betts and Mat Kaplan invent a new kind of quilting party under a spectacular summer night sky.

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OSIRIS-REx at Kennedy Space Center for final assembly

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is revealed after its protective cover is removed inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 21, 2016.